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**pappy** · 01-03-2012, 11:22 PM

Now that Perry has bowed out I think Bachmann will soon follow (within weeks). I also see both of them throwing support to Santorum based on their evangelical and anti Romney bent.

Looking at the numbers from tonight (as they stand now) that would put Santorum in the range of 39% with Mitt at 25% and Newt at 13%.

Now Newt could certainly re-surge but where would that support come from? Paul isn't going anywhere and the rest don't have enough support to matter.

Huntsman should show well in NH but I doubt he can be more than a spoiler for Romney but eventually dropping out to support Romney whose campaign he nearly tanked. Newt drops out late and throws support to the best deal he can get.

Santorum survives NH and gains strong support in the South taking the nomination up to, if not into, the convention before it is decided.

**jaxx** · 01-03-2012, 11:25 PM

I think Santorum will do well in the south/bible belt states too. Romney just hasn't jelled with the people. Hard to believe it will come down to those two....but as far as I'm concerned, anybody but Newt.

***There Is No Spoon*** · 01-03-2012, 11:30 PM

I can't believe we're now talking about Santorum as if he's a legitimate candidate. Are the Republicans essentially giving up on this election?

**SeattleGirl** · 01-03-2012, 11:32 PM

(01-03-2012 11:30 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote: I can't believe we're now talking about Santorum as if he's a legitimate candidate. Are the Republicans essentially giving up on this election?

I don't think I've ever seen such a motley crew running for President.

Even some of the talking heads are calling them a circus clown car.

**pappy** · 01-03-2012, 11:34 PM

(01-03-2012 11:32 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:
(01-03-2012 11:30 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote: I can't believe we're now talking about Santorum as if he's a legitimate candidate. Are the Republicans essentially giving up on this election?

I don't think I've ever seen such a motley crew running for President.

Even some of the talking heads are calling them a circus clown car.

The party of the Juggalos.

**RoyGBiv** · 01-04-2012, 01:05 AM

(01-03-2012 11:30 PM)There Is No Spoon Wrote: I can't believe we're now talking about Santorum as if he's a legitimate candidate. Are the Republicans essentially giving up on this election?

He is not a legitimate candidate. Once again, the story surrounding the primary season is going full speed with narrow blinders and ignoring the fact that Iowa means far, far less than it is pretended to mean. And on that note I am compelled to add that all this bizarre fawning over Bachmann not long ago because she won a damn straw poll in Iowa meant exactly what sane people said it meant - nothing. So Santorum got some votes because the voting took place during his surge. He's probably not going to win Iowa anyway and is just another also-ran whose influence will decline as rapidly as it rose.

We're watching electoral theater, not an election.

**Born_A_Truman** · 01-04-2012, 12:13 AM

davidaxelrod
The sound Santorum is hearing right now is not the buzz of victory. It's the whirring of Romney Super PAC, preparing to carpet bomb him.

**yowzayowzayowza** · 01-04-2012, 12:51 AM

(01-04-2012 12:13 AM)Born_A_Truman Wrote: davidaxelrod
The sound Santorum is hearing right now is not the buzz of victory. It's the whirring of Romney Super PAC, preparing to carpet bomb him.

Florida is gunna be uggggly.